Example sentences of "[was/were] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 2 | Sir Ian Gilmour , sacked from the Cabinet in September 1981 , was on both main television news bulletins on 10 January , telling viewers that being a good listener was not one of Mrs Thatcher 's virtues , and that there had been ‘ a downgrading of Cabinet government ’ ; Cabinet meetings were something to be got through , not the place where views were to be aired and decisions reached . |
| 3 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 4 | Now , though , having to live again in a world where ideals were something to be discussed by intellectuals and certain priests , but never applied , as they would have got in the way of Horemheb 's programme of reform , Huy found his feelings dulled . |
| 5 | All armchairs were filled , mainly with men , most of them sipping champagne , as if a flight were something to be celebrated , like a wedding . |
| 6 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 7 | The Euro-elections were something of a test for the Greens . |
| 8 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 9 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 10 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 11 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 12 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 13 | My parents were something of traditionalists , and in Haiti it is a tradition that if a baby is born more fit and healthy than average , the mother will add a blemish , such as a scar , in case the lou-garou , the werewolf , should take a liking to such a perfect child . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 15 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 16 | Rock pools were something of a novelty for him . |
| 17 | Well I think they w they were something on three four two I think . |
| 18 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 19 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 20 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 21 | Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 23 | There were something like 41 officials but only 21 players from the home unions at Parc des Princes . |
| 24 | We knew what our were , were something like what they 're they 're requirements were . |
| 25 | I mean they 're they 're s they were something like twelve quid a pair . |
| 26 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 27 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 28 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 29 | For bisexual Dana , it was something to be proud of , and he looked down upon my inferior condition . |
| 30 | There was something to sex , too , in those days . |